[chezlaw]

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First of all, if you think I have misinterpreted something (which I of course very well may have done), could you please inform me how or in what way? You saying so doesn't help much.


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If you think DS is asking if you prefer to do what you prefer to do then you've wrong. I'll leave DS to exlain why if he wants to. Or he could say that that is the exciting question he was posing


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OK. No help from you in describing what is misinterpreted then.

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No, that was help. We have to try to understand DS's intention here, and it fairly obviously isn't to ask if we prefer to do what we prefer to do.

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Second of all, your example about getting a morphine high is not an example of anything. Why would you ever not choose to hook yourself up to this machine if you thought it would give you the most happiness? You claim that you wouldn't, and I simply don't believe it. In case you don't hook yourself up to this machine, I think it can only be because you actually don't think it will give you the most happiness (i.e. you find some negative value in becoming a drug addict).

The simple fact is that it is given in this question what option people actually prefer, and for some reason you seem to find it difficult to choose this option.


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You may not believe it but it proves your logical fallacy wasn't. I believe many people would refuse it for the same reason they wouldn't all rush out and get frontal lobotomies if it was proven that being lobotimised would made them happy.


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I really can't understand what it is that you have such huge trouble understanding. Of course people would and should get a lobotomy if they thought it would increase their happiness. If you actually believe that you would be happier with a lobotomy, then what would your argument be for not getting it?

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Why should they do it? I wouldn't take the fromntal lobotomy even if it would make me happy because I don't want to. Why don't I (or many others) want to I hear you cry? well we can have a very long interesting conversation about that if you like but in the end it doesn't matter why it's just a matter of fact.

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7. Please give one example of one invention from which future generations will benefit greatly. I certainly can't think of any such invention, but I can easily put down almost all our inventions as things from which future generations eventually will loose their possibility of living on earth.

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I'll just deal with this bit because all we have to do is consider the benefits to our generation from the inventions of previous ones. I benefit greatly from this computer.

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